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i r, SEPTEMBER, 1922 . The Commoner JttEN'SFOOTWE FOR THE FEET . .... n nv two Allen's Foot- SprinKit F t Bath and me ...Jiia epowu. - It lakeH 'nnt of Corns and Bunions and m, , nHiln feet. Then for last ffiartiSort shake Allen's Foot-Ease ,tf comfort, aim coatl,0 friction 10 . oluins (HtO youi . ..,,- ,!. nrwi ninlffiR rlinoartiea and to break In now f! Over One Million Five Hundred Saml pounds of Powder for tho Kre used by our Army and Navy during tho war. .Pinch, me ALLEN'S FtlOT-EASE FREE1 JOTrtjImenf lb on receipt (( joor name idiMrtss KONDON Idootapoiis, Mtofl, tfflMRHAL JELLY is guaranteed by 30 years service to millions of Americans. Kondon's works wonders for your cold, sneezing, cough, chronic catarrh, neaa. nose, ache, ajw&w uruggiscs have it fir. E. E. Paddock, Specialist, of Kansas City, Mo., lias distributed free over 100,000 copies of a booklet on cause and treatment of inflammation of tho Gall Bladder and Bile Ducts as as sociated with Gallstones of the liver; bilious colic, juandlce, gas, indigestion. Just send name today for this . Free Book to Dr. K. B. Paddock, Box C. F. 201, Kansas City, Mo. Cured Her Rheumatism Knowing from terrible experienco the suffering caused by rheumatism, Mrs. J. a Hurst, who lives at 508 3D. Olive St., B-733, Bloomlngton, 111., is so thankful it having cured herself that out of pure tratltudc sho is anxious to tell all other sufferers just how to get rid of their torturo by a simple way at homo. Mrs. Hurst has nothing to sell. Mere ly cut out this notice, mail It to her .i.;1 y,?,nr own name and address, and nO Will flnlltr on.i1 .... 4.1,1,. .ni,w. t.ln i , .i "'' owhu jruu Cilia vaiuuuiu ?i?"inai,on pntl'ely free. Write her at tnce before you forget. Cured His Rupture trJnta8 badly 'Pturcd while lifting a mv lu Yoral years -e' doctors said Tro.i!ly ll.,po of cure was an operation. uusseb did mo no good, Finally I got comniriiomet,I,,nS tlmt quickly " and J lolj ourd mei Years have passed Shnfiiu ?lmturo has never returned, SrBlV l ntn (lohlS hard work as a lost :??, rhero was no operation, no ell ,? no trouble. I havo nothing to about hLw,n slvo ful1 information tore wte..you may flnd a complete mrp!Sutorpcratlon, if you write to Ma,rcSh?nAM' Pullon- Carpenter, 33 J Better ouf von,u.e' Manasquan, N. J. CnvlJut U,s notIco and 6h0w " way tav lorn wno aro ruptured you tolsevvl0, ut or at least stop the dancr-v rif runiuro and tho worry and ""mi or an on.inH "'U ""acco l.,.t..TT . "" i T&r, slran. . or banishes tho habit com- ?dnUflcrSmr,foir? you Hnow An absolutely 2hV&Eh relfable treatment. No f0? lllfin 8 h,Jblt' or m lj torn oed' tbhrtS ""pvinir for tobacco after you !?.ltIvd?SJi ,nPWplv treatment. This Sttflut XrSantcc Your mny foturned JfctS?,0 nueatton4f not satisfied. tTobCMplanaV,ry booklet and proof of tothtoKE2erha, don 'or raon addicted Iflrtll DL nab,tSendpoBt card or letter today. t,,rraaoICo.,PcP!.91$,StLoui,M. ttrlAf1ltnn.1 -L 1 Tli? T "8M!auc propaganda and the election to congress of men in that interest that tho railroads were returned to their former own ers with immense accumulation of material as a bonus to them. Then there set in a similar propaganda as to alleged deterioration while under government control, and upon this was based the "Esch-Cummins" Act under which the former owners re ceived a bonus, out of the public funds, of two billion dollars. Then followed a similar propaganda and machination by which private owner ship cut down tho wages of those who did the work 34 per cent, but at the same time there was not a cent taken off of the enormous salaries, in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars, and totaling many millions, which the executives apportioned to themselves. At the same time, with unparal lelled greed, these executives had in creased the burden upon the public by raising freights and fares. In short, the return to private ownership meant millions out of the public treasury paid to private own ership, millions upon millions paid by the public to them by higher freights and fares and as much to be taken off of the earnings and the sub sistence of hundreds of thousands of men and their wives and children in order that the swollen fortunes of the small body of men which really controls the. entire railroad system of the country might be eirbrmously in creased, and this was to be followed by an increase in the hours of labor. "The executives," as they style themselves, really the "overseers" for the capitalistic owners in London, and New York, evidently deemed that they were the government of this country, and that the public and the operatives of the railroads, coal mines and other public utilities ex isted solely for the profit of the own ers of these corporations. The men of this country resisted similar control by the Plutocracy of Britain in 1776. There was far more reason why the operatives of the coal mines and railroads of this country should now havo struck as they have done, than there was for the action by our ancestors in 1776. In making this strike, the opera tives were fighting the battles for civilization and free government. If the government can operate as it does, the nostofflce with 600,000 em ployes, and if Jt can operate its navy and its army, without private owner ship and not Cor private profit, it can certainly operate its public utilities in the same manner. The great necessity as to all pub lic utilities is that they shall be .ofori cniolv in the public inter est and upon a purely "cost system without profit just as the postofflce, the' army and navy and other neces sary institutions aro being operated. Tho result of the present system of operating public utilities as a source of private profit has been to accumulate enormous sums n pri vate hands with a corresponding des titution among the manythose who do all the work in operating them. There are over two hundred for tunes in this country estimated at ove? fifty o.r 100 millions each-one of them is as high as eighteen nunS million, and I many annual incomes exceeding $5,000 ,000 each Not one of these could have been accumulated except out -of the enor mous profit derived from public UtTheese enormous fortunes control politics, furnish the means of fill ins legislatures, congress and pub t nfflnB of all kinds, with the TCV n alty and public opinion by system atic propaganda. They take from the young men tho equality of op portunity which should bo tho boast, and is an absolute necessity for tho continuance of free institutions. i uTih?80 vast accumulations aro tho blight of both public and privato honesty. To check these vast and deadly aggregations, which are fatal to liberty and our free institu tions, wo have resorted to a graduat ed income tax. But all men know that this is an abiding fraud and a delusion. It is evaded and has be come merely a fruitful source of corruption. The perpetuity of our institu tions requires that these vast ac cumulations shall cease. Government by the people cannot survivo such enormous power placed in a few Wiands and obtained, as all men know they must be by illegal methods and in disregard of law. Tho legisla tion against trusts has proven use less. Like the income and inheri tance taxes it, is simply evaded. There is not one of these accumu lations which has been legally made. To tako an example, A well known man died in New York, recently, ad mittedly owning over two hundred millions accumulated within tho last forty years. He had dono nothing for the public benefit and when ho died bequeathed nothing for public purposes. His only notable transac tion that recalled him to mind was that some years ago. when he was sought by the law to obtain evidence of illegal practices in violation of tho Anti-Trust law, ho could not be found until after long search his hiding place was discovered and then physicians readily testified that ho had cancer of the throat, and could not talk. He survived this silence for many years and did not! die of cancer. Yet take a pencil and figure! If his services had been worth one hundred dollars a week, i. e., $5,200 a year, and he had saved half of it, it would have taken him 77,000 years to accumulate this two hundred mil lions out of his fellow men. Is a sys tem that permits such accumulation in thirty or forty years one that can be allowed to continue? 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